{"id":189989,"date":"2026-04-08T20:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189989\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T20:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:25:09","slug":"new-york-city-mayor-mamdani-says-his-plan-for-free-buses-wont-happen-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189989\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City Mayor Mamdani says his plan for free buses won&#8217;t happen in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/04\/08\/mamdani-free-buses-00863065\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said in an exclusive interview with Politico<\/a> that his campaign promise of free busses won\u2019t happen this year.<\/p>\n<p>During the interview, the reporter said that in Albany, there has not been a free bus plan in any budget proposals and asked Mamdani if it will be done in 2026 or 2027.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth legislative houses included language within their one-house budget proposals in support of bringing back a free-bus pilot program,\u201d he answered. \u201cThat is something that we are encouraged by, and it continues to be part of budget negotiations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said he was encouraged by the conversations happening about free busses happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m absolutely committed to making buses fast and free, and we\u2019re encouraged by the conversations we\u2019re having with the governor and legislative leaders to take action on that in 2026 as a first step,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/zohran-mamdani-professor-who-wrote-about-ending-policing-appointed-to-work-on-community-safety-new-york-city-gangs-law-and-order-crime#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mamdani ran on a democratic socialist platform<\/a> when he ran for mayor last year. Some of his campaign promises included rent freezing and free busses.<\/p>\n<p>During the Politico interview, Mamdani was asked if he would run for president in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will be honest with you, I have not thought much about 2028,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m thinking about 2026 and I\u2019m thinking about how we can deliver for New Yorkers. But I will give you that I did not expect that question.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in an exclusive interview with Politico that his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-189989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-city-news","12":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}